When A Woman Calls
Polly Benedict worries over social calling in a brisk exchange about tallying visitors and the challenge of catching people at home. The narrator notes Twenty calls in a single afternoon and compares it to a game of luck in social rounds with Lucy Bennet and PAI Arkwright among those mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polly Benedict
Robinson
Adies
Tosphall Stort
Polly
Victoria
Lucy Bennet
Pai Arkwright
Victorian Social Snares and Idle Auction Chatter
A collage of clipped dialogues and social mores shows guests avoiding home visits, society courtesies at doors, and a joking auction scene. Exchanges touch on farewell courtesies, empty Victoria, and the notion of a home visiting list, with asides about insurance and a tobacco heart.
Social Snares of a Regency Tea Party
A narrator recalls a viscous social scene where gossip and vanity rule visits. The talk centers on clashing hosts Bessie Jones and Phyllis and the petty bickering between social rivals. Tension rises as guests judge furniture and manners, with sharp reminiscences of social sins.
Foreign Facts From Global Briefs
A diverse collection notes high Madras mortality at about 110 per thousand, German exports to Togoland and East Africa dominated by alcohol, 62,000 Russian emigrants returning from Siberia, France adopting large night lights to curb insects, Belgium to mint pierced Nickel coins for easy stringing, Kron the oldest German ironclad launched in 1867, and an Amsterdam publisher selling an alphabetic list of English aristocrats wounded or killed in the Transvaal in a work titled The Almavach de Botha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madras
Togoland
East Africa
Siberia
France
Belgium
England
Amsterdam
Holland
Transvaal
Indian worker found preserved body in Chilean copper mine
In the Chuquicamata district of the Atacama Desert a long-deceased Indian laborer was found in a copper mine preserved by copper antiseptic. He reportedly died from a roof fall while collecting atacamite. his tools and a small basket lay nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oan Vimertean
Chuquicamati
Atacama
Todian
For Sale Two Hardwood Stoves and Desk and Table
For sale two hardwood stoves in good condition, plus one desk and a sitting room table, cheap if taken at once. Inquire T W Reno, 23 McKinnie block. WANTED Washing by a needy family or individual, address 1918 1st avenue corner 19th street. WANTED Cisterns to fill city area, call 2632. Residence 1311 13th street J Stofft. WANTED Rent a four or five room house west of 18th street downtown, H P Hansen, 504 4th avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amin
Polly
Mrs. Jones
Bessie Jones
Phyllis
Reno
McKinnie Block
1St Avenue
19Th Street
6Th
Ith Avenue
12Th Avenue
1Sth Street
13Th Street
J. Stofft
18Th Street
H P Hansen
4Th Avenue
Cady’s
Roundhouse
Mueller & Son's
3D Avenue
Henry Rohwer
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Puen
Tootman
Trello
Willie
Thompson
Philadelphia
North American
Leslie
Philadelphia Preas
FPR
Lewis
Manfr Peoria,ill
Ohio
F W. Uhros
Ifth Street
the Home Co- Operative Co. Co-partnership OF
Kansas City, Missouri
United States
Second Ave
Rock Island
Illinois
W. A. Briggs
R.W. Hamilton
Market Square
Moline
E. Matson
Ipusususu
Norton County
Kansas
Inquirer
T Walker
Healy
Saile
Port Byron
Moline Bluffs
Oakleaf
McKinnie
Greater
New York
20Th St
Brown
C P Skinner
Allen Bros. McKinnie
Williamson
2C Avenue
Jones
Miles’ ‘Servine
A. R. Morkett
Arcola
BANKS
Moline National Bank
15Th Street
Moline State Bavings Bank
People's Savings Bank
Ill
German Savings Bank
Davenport
Iowa
B. A. Bolen
Diseases of
12Th Street
J. G. Swensson
Rosenstein Building
Boston
BE. L. Kerns
Lindvall’s
Bennett—Skinner Annex
A. R. Beal
M. D
J. M. Wyland
Chase Building
6Th Avenue
Mock—Rosenstein
16Th Street
Sth Avenue
Tod
Clothiers
T McKinnie Block
P. Mullane
Til
Tue
U. S
W. Odell
Wood & Peek
Postoffice
Lawrence M. Magill
Skinner Block
Jackson & Hurst—Attorneys At Law
Rock Island National Bank
Rock Island. Nl
C. B. Marshall
LB & Marshall
Mitchell & Lynde Block
Moline State Savings Bank
A. S Wright
W . Wells
O. F. Anderson
Cashier
Porter Skinner
Geo. H. Edwards
A. 8. Wright
W. W. Wells
H. A. Ainsworth
W. H. Adama
Geo. W. Wood
C. P. Skinner
J. G. Skinner
Fidelity Loan Company
Mitchell & Lynde Bik
Mold, Ill
Geo
H. Edwards
Hirsch
F. G. Allen
P. Skinner
J. Bilas Leas
R. Ainswortam
Wright
Ween
Wkinner
Europe
Banking House
Dr. Miles
Sts
Miles Medual Co
Elkhart
Ind
People's Furniture & Carpet House
Dewend & Kuschmann
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
John M. Ekelin
Merchant Tailors
Carpenters
John Carlson
2D Avenue
Wagner Opera House
5Th Avenue
Chderberg
Avenue
Journal Adlets
Jens Lorenzen
H. Lischer
Chas
Noss
R. Andresen
Kaufmann Dire
SRB
Ors
H. H. Andresen
F. G. Clausen
F. H. Griggs
T. A. Murphy
Paulo Roddewig
H. O. Seiffert
Chas. N. Voss
People’s Savings Bank
Moline, Ill
J. T Browning
P. H. Weseel
Gillmore
C. W. Lundahl
Asset
C. AW. Deere
A. A. Crampton
J. W. Good
C. R. Aineworth
W. A. Rosenfield
G. H. Lohrbeck
George Stephens
P. C. Simmon
Thos. M. Sechler
Flist National Harts
Louis H. Rieck
Harrison Street
CH. Mangold, Photographer
Sthave
Lost
Roca Island Arsenal
Journal
National Association OF Stationary Engineers
A. C. Grantsz
C .E. Cornell
Sec
ST Marie
4Th Ave
Undertakers
A V. Exsterdahl
Lutheran Church
Harry Webber
First Congregational Church
Ondrous
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Onders
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America
Clendenn's
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